Games You Played Today IV: Play Free or Die Hard

secret character · Joined: 12 Jul 2008

Pole weapons such as the halberd are actually pretty good when you two-hand them. Of course, for that to be viable you probably need to be able to roll, and the starting temple knight armor is too heavy for that. You could get some lighter clothes in 3-1, or the leather set by rescuing Blige in 4-1. If you're set on restarting though, you might consider either a royalty (which everyone seems to recommend) or a hunter (better at melee, plus a bow).

Also Broco, I'm pretty sure it doesn't matter whether or not you finish 1-1 without dying, because you're in soul form anyway; you have to die in body form to have an effect on world tendency. If you're getting pure white after your first time beating 1-1, you can probably chalk it up to the weird way Demon's Souls handles WT when online (it supposedly gets set based on some kind of server tendency or something).

secret character · Joined: 12 Jul 2008

A Sharp Shotel +5 supposedly outdamages the Blind even through a shield, though if you just don't want to deal with trying to get a second Pure Bladestone that's understandable. But really, Blind is not a very good weapon.

secret character · Joined: 12 Jul 2008

secret character · Joined: 12 Jul 2008

Late to the party, but I've been playing Monster Hunter Freedom Unite. I killed a Giadrome with the great sword you get in the beginning of the game. It took fucking forever, but I killed the damn beast; I seriously must've had like a minute left in the quest when the thing finally collapsed. After dying twice to it, revenge was sweet.

secret character · Joined: 12 Jul 2008

secret character · Joined: 12 Jul 2008

Been trying to play the Genesis Shadowrun game. Does it get any better than in the beginning? So far it's been kind of annoying.

I started out as a decker. I did some slightly randomized quests, mostly delivery and escort (didn't have good enough equipment to do the "kill some monsters" quests), paid for Michael's stuff, bought a better gun. I died a number of times to random thugs until I figured out how to kite enemies. I got sent to another area after dying once thanks to an item in Michael's stuff and now I can't go anywhere else without paying for a cab, which I don't have the money for. I can't find a place to get quests in this area (Seattle, I think) and so it kind of seems like I'm stuck barring one of the many random events you can get for just walking around.

Oh, and I also tried cyberspace a couple times but I basically couldn't hit anything, and things didn't seem to want to hit me, so I just jacked out.

secret character · Joined: 12 Jul 2008

Thanks for the tip about the guy you can pawn files to, I hadn't explored that corner yet.

I've got the hang of hacking, I think, but it still seems that my equipment may not be good enough for most systems. I did get a nice piece of data which earned me some cash that I used to buy a few things. However, on another cyberspace run I managed to fry my MPCP so I've got to do some shadowrunning to repair it.

This game is seeming more interesting, but I'm still not sure if I really like it.

secret character · Joined: 12 Jul 2008

I started playing Vindictus today. It's surprisingly not horrible, though I'm not ready to say it's good yet. It's definitely more of an action game than most MMOs. I've only done the first few missions and they've been exceedingly easy, but I expect things will toughen up. If anyone wants a key I've got one extra.

secret character · Joined: 12 Jul 2008

secret character · Joined: 12 Jul 2008

secret character · Joined: 12 Jul 2008

So Vindictus does get reasonably tough. The Gnoll Chieftan takes about half my HP in one hit (on Normal difficulty). I've fought him a few times trying to complete the armor set. Another mission has you fight two bosses at the same time, which was pretty cool. Next mission is a giant fucking polar bear, which I am kind of dreading.

So yeah, this game actually fun. Sort of like Monster Hunter, just with a bunch of people running around town; not exactly an MMORPG, but it does have a focus on multiplayer. I would recommend trying this game.

secret character · Joined: 12 Jul 2008

More Vindictus. Found out something a little interesting, there's a sort of limitation on doing quests after a certain point; you begin with number of tokens, and later quests cost tokens to attempt. If you do a lot of quests in one day, the price per quest goes up. I suppose this is a way to discourage obsessive play; I think similar schemes have been showing up in various MMO games, and it's a noble idea at least. However, there are a few potential ways around it, and the earlier quests are still free, so it seems like sort of a half-assed deterrent.